Industry seeks Supreme Court review of EPA’s CAA provisions

2:26 PM MDT | April 26, 2013 | —Rebecca Coons

A consortium of industry groups, including ACC and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, have filed a joint petition seeking a US Supreme Court review of a landmark lower court ruling that allowed EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act (CAA). Specifically, ACC claims EPA’s use of CAA’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration permitting program to regulate GHGs is fundamentally flawed because GHGs are not among the six National Ambient Air Quality Standards criteria pollutants the law authorizes EPA to...